[KillMeNow]

just wondering what everyone has and what kinda score they are getting

at the mo i'm running athlon 1ghz 512mb ramm geforce 2 mx

and the last tiem i benchmarked it i got about 3700or something if i tweaked it i think i got abit more out of it

(now for the show off bit and now the real reason for this post)
 
today i just went in to twon as asked the place were i get my computer stuff to begin building my monster

dual Athlon 1800+
1024mb DDR ram
wait for it wait for it
GeForce 4 ti 4600

hehehe in 5 - 8 it should be ready for collection cause they need to order some bits in special - i was surprised i was going to buy the bits online but they were just as cheap slightly cheaper for somethings

cant wait to benchmark it

[wEvil]

score on what benchmark?

my machine spits out about 22 weighted mean in SPEC_Viewperf

specs' in the sig.

[Ryx]

3DMark, I think.

I'm gonna upgrade sometime soon. I'll wait a bit longer, though.

I'm not getting dual, though, but 1 Gb RAM sounds about right.

Current specs

T-Bird 800 @ 880 MHz
512 Mb 133MHz SDRAM
1 40Gb IBM 7200
1 80Gb WD 7200
1 22.5 Gb ? 5400 (replaced by the WD)
GF3 Ti 200
SB Audigy
Netgear 10/100
Abit KT7 133
16x DVD-ROM
16x10x40 CD-RW

[Crazy_Ivan80]

, that's nothing compared to my

Athlon 600MHz
396 RAM
GeForce 2 GTS 64Mb

[wEvil]

What?  MadNvidiot Geforce mark?!

pff. my machine spits about about 450 in that which goes to show what an utter pile of ****e it is.

KMN - dont get a Geforce TI (unless you're really into games and not into graphics).  I've built a large number of workstations for most of my Uni class and I have to say, the amount of graphical glitches you get with Geforces and Quadros is totally daft.  If you got the money to spare and dont game a huge amount, go the extra £500 for a decent pro card.  Window redraw errors and missing polygons just dont happen on Oxygen, Wildcat or FireGLs



good stuff (CHEAP too) here:

http://www.proe.co.uk/online/shop/graphics.php

wildcat 6110 for £1245?!  If my overdraft wasnt already nuked it would have been by now!

[KillMeNow]

sadly i just banrupted myself getting this machine and the geforce i have hasn't been to bad so geforce 4 was the best i could afford and its still a  mean card admitbly better for games than graphics but i should do the job - i'm going to go back to 2d work maybe add some 38d stuff to it and do some design work this summer to pay for my machine if i earn enough i'll sell the geforce and buy something abit nastier hehehe like you i would love a wildcat but they are hordously priced

what other cards you recomend?

[wEvil]

well.

My two Oxygen cards ive been extremely pleased with.

They're mostly rock solid (apart from an annoying video hardware overlay problem on glint R3 boards), very nice crisp image the whole time, easily on a par with Matrox cards IMO.  Their downside is they cost quite a bit plus they're slow compared to high-performance chips...the design is almost three years old now.  

Wildcats kick arse as 3D cards.  I built a WC5000 machine and it was honestly the fastest thing i've ever seen.  The machine was incredibly responsive and it handled the old 5x200 segment sphere test like nobody's buisiness.  the WC5110 is basically to WC5000 on one board, the the 6xxx series have (slow) D3D plus are about 50% as fast again, even though ive never used one.  Wildcats arent so hot on 2D work however, while the image is almost up there with Oxygen Boards and Matrox boards its not quite as crisp and feels a little ropey.  Wildcat tech came from Intergraph corp.

ATI FireGL cards are meant to be very good even though they have no Geometry Processors (T&L) and therefore are better if you work low-poly openGL mode but like doing textured previews etc.

Nvidia cards.....are good for gamers but are quite blatantly high-performance toys pushed into the pro market, which is why i dun like them.  They get the job done fine most of the time (and pretty quickly too) but as far as precision work goes you just cant trust them.

Dont touch E&S cards as they cost a bomb and run at the speed of molasses.

Sun workstations come with a new crop of nice(ish) MAJC based workstation cards...but they only run under Solaris, not windows.

SGI proprietry chipsets are amazing but only run under IRIX.   The Cobalt one in the 330 and 550 visual workstations are pretty crap compared to 3Dlabs cards.

ATI Radeons...useless for pro work cause the drivers are unstable.

Matrox are excellent 2D cards and always have been.  If they actually work out what 3D is they might be onto a winner.

[KillMeNow]

what you think of the elsa gloria 3?

[wEvil]

the University i'm at uses these in some of their *cough* "better" *cough* workstations.

When you maximise and then minimise a viewport....your model disappears until you move the camera around!!

The texture stretching is obscene and the number of hardware lights it handles are abysmal.

NO.  It's a terrible card in my exprience.

[KillMeNow]

well older wildcat it is then since its more afordable adn you proclaimed it a very fast machine =) but that has to wait until i finished paying off the rest of my puter

[wEvil]

just remember to keep your old machine as a gaming rig -
the wildcat 5k series doesnt do direc3D at all.

try ebay....3DLabs wont let you upgrade it, but you can pick them up or even the older 4xxx series for as low as 200 quid.

[Zeronet]

Intel Petium 4
1.80GHZ
256RAM
Geforce 3 Ti 200
Subwoofer and two speakers.
19 inch moniter

[CP5670]

Lets see...

8231! w00t! (3Dmark 2001) I have heard that it is somewhat partial to the Geforce cards though.

My current computer specs: (it's a bit old now but works pretty well)

1400MHz Athlon TB processor slightly overclocked to 1450MHz
ASUS A7M266E motherboard (AMD-761)
512MB DDR RAM (two 256 modules)
Geforce3 standard (non-Ti) overclocked to 250/575MHz
two 75GB IBM hard drives (7200rpm, ATA/100) running in a RAID configuration
Samsung 52X CD drive
Plextor 16/10/40X CD-RW drive
Creative SBLive XGamer soundcard (includes all the games )
some 3Com ethernet card
21" NEC monitor (1920x1440x32, .25dpi)
400W power unit
Koss SB40 headphones (much better than any speakers IMHO)
some 12 or so fans and AS2 thermal coating on the major components

I personally am much more into games than 3D graphics, so the Ti4600 would be a better choice for me, but I am sort of waiting on the next generation of GFs to come out since my current one seems to work pretty well. (that may change in June when UT2003 comes out though )

add some 38d stuff to it

Wow! Could you send me one of those models when you finish them?

[Setekh]

Nothing special here... P3-500, 384mb of ram, a Kyro2. I don't know whether it'd be worth taking a benchmark of this piece of junk.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Ryx
1 Gb RAM sounds about right.

Just make sure you choose the right OS:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912  

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304943

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q184447

Originally posted by wEvil
SGI proprietry chipsets are amazing but only run under IRIX.   The Cobalt one in the 330 and 550 visual workstations are pretty crap compared to 3Dlabs cards.

You probably know more about this than I do but I thought SGI supported Windows NT (and probably 2k and XP as well) and Linux as well...

My current machine is as ****e as ****e can get:

• AOpen AX6BC mobo (440BX)
• Pentium II 400 CPU (@496)
• 128Mb PC-133 (@124) SDR SDRAM]
• Hyena series midtower ATX case
• 20Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD
• 120Mb Floppy Drive
• 50X CD-ROM
• Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT) 16Mb video card running nVidia Detonator 4 reference drivers version 27.20
• Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card
• Acer ALN-201 RTL-8029-based 10Mbps NIC
• No brand speakers
• Acer 104-key AT keyboard with PS/2 Adaptor
• Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
• Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D Joystick
• Logitech Wingman Gamepad Extreme
• Logitech Wingman Formula Wheel (non force feedback model)
• Windows XP Professional with all the Luna eye candy on

Hopefull sometime in the next year I hope to replace a lot of that stuff with a shiny new dual Athlon MP configuration but thats still a fair way off atm.

[Corsair]

Will not embarrass myself with my
To****a Laptop
Celeron processor @ about 450mhz I think
5 GB hard disk
who knows how much ram
3.5 inch floppy
something like a 16x CD drive
no 3d cards
dunno what else

And the sick thing is that it's better than my desktop (except that it has a 3d card so I can play FS)

[Kamikaze]

My desktop's three years old now... need to get... a new... 'puter...

Pentium 3 450 MHz
352 Mb RAM
Dell GeForce 2 GTS 32 Mb
CD Writer (up to 8x)
DVD-ROM
2 Speakers and Subwoofer
19-inch monitor

........
it's not too bad though it can run this 1600x1200 resolution desktop

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Admiral LSD


JMy current machine is as ****e as ****e can get:

Go see my school's computers

[aldo_14]

AMD Athlon 1500 XP (1.33GHz)
Jetway board (crap)
256MB RAM (not sure on type)
GeForce 2 MX 100/200 (yep, I know........)
SB128 on-chip
Up to date Drivers & direct X

3dMark at 1024x800 is about 1200-1500
at 600x480 is about 3700

[Razor]

My configuration

ASUS P5A ( I think)
AMD K-6 3 450 Mhz
128 MB RAM
Ge-Force 256 32 MB DDR RAM
Sound Blaster Live 1024 player
Allied telesyn 10MB network card
TEAC 540E 40x CD-ROM
Memorex 24X,10X,40X ( my pride )
Creative web-cam GO
Lexmark Z11 printer
17 inch screen
My self-made speakers
A microphone
3.5 inch floppy drive
8 GB Seagate HDD ( I only used up 3 GBs)

2 years old, bought brand new

And probably won't be able to upgrade it for a very very long time